Gutierrez had to get back to Kansas City for his full-time job producing The Border Patrol for 810 Sports Radio.

"The closest airport open was Cleveland," he said. The storm hadn't started in New York, but the panic had. "It was overcast, that was it."

So Gutierrez drove more than eight hours to Cleveland to catch a flight home and finally landed at KCI on Monday morning. He got what seemed like the only rental car left in New York as everyone tried to get out of Sandy's path.

"It was like planes, trains and automobiles," he laughed.

But it wasn't all bad -- Gutierrez got to travel on the road with pro football Hall of Famer Dan Fouts. The Monday Night Football radio analyst couldn't wait for a Tuesday flight either.